Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...winds up with. Lots of wit in the pop-tune lyrics; too much raw-mouthed slurring of women and homosexuals in the dialogue. The difference here is that the filmmakers and the lead actors (including rap artists Kid 'N Play and Full Force) are all middle-class blacks. The script virtually carries warning labels for unwary teens. Drinking is bad; sex without a condom is irresponsible. Rude and righteous, House Party is John Hughes divided by Spike Lee. "I wanted to make a movie that I had not seen," says writer-director Reginald Hudlin, 28, "but a movie that...
Even in Hollywood the script seemed bizarre: an entertainment mogul and his wife are cut down by multiple shotgun blasts as they sit watching television and snacking on berries and cream in their Beverly Hills mansion. Their two handsome sons return home from an evening at the movies to discover the horribly mangled bodies. The police probe the possibility of a Mafia hit but find nothing. The boys inherit their parents' fortune, estimated at at least $14 million, and a $400,000 insurance policy. Seven months later, the scenario takes a shocking twist when police arrest the orphaned sons...
...over when Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter presented him with a copy of the new farm bill, but the President is more able than most politicians to argue the finer points of crop subsidies. There was a brief glimpse of Bush hunt-and- pecking on an electric typewriter, but the script failed to make clear that he comes to work most mornings with an armful of thank-you notes, typed up the night before in his private study in the White House's second-floor residence -- the by-product of a 30-year habit of working in small strokes...
Alongside freedom of worship, Muslim citizens of the Central Asian republics are becoming more assertive about culture. Many are demanding a return to the original Arabic script of their respective languages. The Cyrillic alphabet was forced on the Central Asian republics by Stalin in 1939 to cut Muslims off from their rich cultural heritage and to exacerbate relatively minor linguistic differences among the four main Turkic groups of the area. Today, privately run Arabic-language schools are flourishing in Tashkent and other major cities, while Tashkent's five Arabic-language middle schools are crammed to capacity. At the Tashkent...
...resentments exploded in several days of looting, burning and pogroms against non-Tadzhiks, especially against ethnic Russians. Yet next to the violence, the most striking aspect of the uprising was its trenchantly Islamic character. The insurgents demanded that Islam be declared the republic's official religion and that Arabic script be reinstated. Some of their supporters terrorized Tadzhik women who did not wear head scarves in public...